tRump has a horrible record with unemployment;
Biden left him with a 4.1% unemployment rate; the best since Clinton.
tRump increased unemployment to DOUBLE DIGITS when he was president last time;
Is he going for a record?
Rachel, Michael Steele said we must think how we're going 2 repair the US after this administration. I think::: Let's start with something similar to the "Nuremberg Trials". Remember "following orders" is no excuse for executing illegal acts. Then let's revisit previous convictions, and pardons.
Wait, the slaughterhouse jobs are all filled. Must have more deportations. Ok ICE, get the Trump color chart out. Everybody will need to be no more than three shades pale when compared to Trumps fat ass.
I’d like reporters to interview people living in the area to learn their opinion. How do they feel about decision to eliminate 1000 jobs at one time? What effect will this have on the area restaurants, shopping centers, banks, gas stations?
Yes, by all means, let's keep facts as facts and not alternative-facts.
First, I “did not” say anything about KC metro area, I said Kansas!
Second, DONALD TRUMP Republican Received 741,949 or 57.18% of Kansas ELECTORAL VOTES… My mistake, my memory failed me, I was off by 2.82%
The story you’re commenting on is about jobs in Kansas City. (In Missouri, btw) The majority of these workers did not vote for trump. You should take a moment from kicking people when they’re down to educate yourself.
Sympathy well is dry for anyone who voted Trump. He made no secret of his intention and they voted for him anyway. The pain was ok as long as was directed toward Democrats. I very much know the importance of facts & truth even if it hurts!!
Kansas 57.2% voted for Trump.
Missouri 58.5% voted Trump
Part of the consequences that Trump/Musk didn’t consider when they decided to reduce the size of government. Just laying people off doesn’t equate to being more efficient. What they really want is to reduce taxes on the rich, so they want to reduce wages for those who aren’t rich.
The public has no clue how the government creates jobs in the private sector. They’ve listened to the “big government is bad” BS spouted by the Republicans Party (the supposed good version), which the Democrats never pushed back on effectively (because they secretly believed it, too).And here we are
To be clear, this only what the trump voters want. The empathy less sociopaths are loving the idea that "educated liberal elites" with their "good easy federal jobs" are suffering.
yes, however- 'they' are now be 'teached up' losing their jobs- no education funding- and 'they' had bad funding before- SOON- 'they' will be canon fodder being offered up.......
Sadly though -Kansas was won by the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, with a margin of 16.1%, a slight improvement from 4 years prior, although one of Trump’s smallest improvements throughout the nation.
The loss of all these jobs, will definitely crash our economy. There will be a lot less money circulating in our economy. People will also have less money to buy the Orange Felon's grifting crap.
Missouri is a Trump state. Hope they have enough in their Unemployment Benefits program to pay thousands at one time. And, when folks are unemployed, they cannot afford to buy anything or go out to eat. Every penny goes to feeding their families beans and rice.
True. But don't MAGA voters of Missouri benefit from the economic power of KC, the way a lot of Red States do from their more populous blue cities? Any economic hit KC takes will adversely affect the rest of the State.
I think the dems have had a while to know what was coming. MAGAcult had/has no idea MAGA was going to mow them down along with the dems. At this point, Trump doesn't need his brainwashed supporters. Their minds will explode.
This is how the 2025 great recession is going to start. Unlike in 2008 where the government lagged by a couple years, the federal gov is starting it. Next will be state and county staff and then city.
Sure a lot of voted 4 DT. Didn't none of u read Project 2025 whr they talked abt schedule F which was replacing Fed workers w/DT loyalists?Some of u caused ur own problems. DT is a liar that is well known. Why wld u
vote 4 a liar, cheater felon. Just out of National pride that shldn't have happened
Hopefully, all of these federal workers, almost all whom are being fired illegally, will exhaust their administrative remedies and then file massive class action suits against the government, but also directed somehow at Trump, musk, Williams, homes, etc.
Yup, this the FAFO phase. I'm sure JD Vance and his cronies are in the wings waiting to buy up all those bankrupt farms for pennies to the dollar. JD was partners in Acre Trade, this the goal.
All the trump chaos creates a domino's affect. Our country is going from the most enviable economy around the world, to pitied, very fast. Autocratic countries are known & proven to take from their people to enrich the oligarchs. Sound familiar America?
This is not, and never was, about efficiency. Follow the money. Every cut to a vital government service is earmarked to fund tax cuts for Musk, Trump, and billionaires.
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Trump is Putin's puppet. Putin can't take America down militarily, nor economically, so with easy kompromat, he gets his corrupt boy in office to do it for him. All that we're seeing day by day is not about fraud & waste, it's about making sure America is taken down to its knees and never gets up.
Look at it this way, his unemployment numbers will be the best of all time, nobody ever had bigger numbers than him. He might be able to top his numbers from the pandemic.
People should protest and show their dissatisfaction with the current regime! Midterms are coming and should be the wake-up call for the whole country!!
By then might be too late for many though….
It was never about helping the American people or the economy! It only has to do with funding the next tax cut for the obscenely wealthy and with keeping trump and the muskrat out of jail and from being under investigation by federal agencies! That’s it!!
That, and their cronies buying everything up at discount prices while privatizing those govern ment functions they want to keep. And contracting those to those same cronies.
Wait till the unemployment numbers come in. Then they will slow down or stop unemployment benefits. Just like DeSantis did … with a faulty electronic system. It will be just like United Healthcare they will deny 90%. Guaranteed!
The state should know. They pay the UE in their state. They will note it on the states Labor & Stats in that state. You would have to check each state independently instead of the US one that does it automatically.
you can hid the dead, you can hid infection numbers.. You're not hiding unemployment payments to people from that department. They also lost the lawsuit for doing so. He tried to make an order to hide his own travel expenses. I believe that one is still pending?
You think a red-state government is going to provide honest statistics that paint anything but a rosy picture? They’ll suppress and falsify the numbers to support their agenda.
It's going to show up in the Budget. You can lie to the media, you can remove the webpage but those budgets are going to show the truth & someone will leak it & you can't move money that big without someone noticing /local newspapers- still independent (for now). It will kill the economy.
No shit, if they resigned, no unemployment benefits, no COBRA, no welfare,. GET FIRED. Review the complaint when trump denies benefits; keep all emails you were terminated bc of your political views and that is discrimination if discrimination is still illegal if not, young go to AU ASAP.
For everyone saying a red state got what they deserved, remember that the 1.2 million people here who voted for Harris are victims of this, too. Thanks, Electoral College. Every part of our country has people who didn’t vote for this, regardless of what their neighbors did.
The fact that higher unemployment is obviously desirable by the wealthy, as it means workers are more likely to agree to poorer work conditions to maintain there jobs...
...just need to look at how Elon Musk runs his workforce.
This will also be true of Virginia, which has 144,295 living in the state. Other states have large amounts as well. Federal contractors are also being hit by this dredge. Private industry can't absorb dismissed workers, and the despot doesn't care.
But Big-Brain MAGAs know that once we give the billionaires more money they’ll create all the jobs all over the place. I mean, it hasn’t happened yet (or ever). But ANY DAY NOW.
It cost taxpayers around $927,747.65 to fly Trump and his cronies to and from the Super Bowl. Add @ $18K for Secret Service. It cost taxpayer’s @ 5,000,000 for the idiot’s joyride on the Daytona 500 track, plus the cost to fly there with Secret Service protection. There’s your waste, Elon.
When I heard about Yosemite not allowing reservations for camping because of cuts, my first thought was all the local seasonal businesses around the park that will lose money. He’s such a disgrace.
Trump would love nothing more than to sell off our National Parks to oil companies and luxury resorts with golf courses that would completely destroy the ecosystem.
Wanton, indiscriminate destruction of innocent people’s lives, and the hobbling of government services and defenses, all under the cruel guise of government “efficiency.” The King no longer has any clothes.
"Government is a large part of our economy, and now we're slashing and burning a big contributor to economic growth without really fully understanding the consequences," Ginther said.
This will increase the unemployment rate, besides causing disruption of services and contribute to inflation and potentially to another housing crisis when people are unable to pay the mortgage!
Don't think Trump gave much thought to the actual after effects of his Project 2025 federal government firings. Or, maybe he was in some dystopian mindset that it would only hurt Democratic cities and voters.
I am an IRS /RA/TAS retiree who does VITA returns. I transmit returns to the IRS and states of the TP....my contacts tell me IRS employees, including Kansas City, are being laid off now...not after Friday as they were being informed....There are no greater liars than Trump and his cronies....
The only real upside to all the federal workers screwed out of their lives is that they'll be voting against Rump and the GOP come the midterms, if we have midterms by then.
I think it will be hard to state an exact number with precision, but we can all agree that a buttload of people decided to sit this one out, and shouldn't have.
Obviously if everyone voted one way it would have made a difference, but I tend to agree with you on the conclusion - because I think anyone who wasn't aware enough to vote in 2024 probably also wasn't aware enough to make a decent decision with their vote.
As a super basic look into it based on the numbers above and the estimated voting age population of the state, around 2 million people DID NOT EVEN VOTE, but I would love to be proven wrong by any one with better figures then me
For the record, Harris won Johnson and Wyandotte Co in Kansas and Jackson Co in MO. Those counties are the majority of the population in the KC metroplex.
@diretalks.bsky.social You really should take a look at the data and research this individual is posting along with the organization he heads up @electiontruth.bsky.social #verifythevote #investiagatethevote
I can promise you I have as much empathy for these people than anybody.
As somebody who has friends who work for the government, are in unions, etc, and voted for orange man, I know there are those among them who need to be reminded what they voted for.
Wonder if MAGA Federal workers and VA recipients who have been fired or can’t get the medical care they need becuz of Musk cuts & firings-have realized they were the problem that Trump campaigned on getting rid of
A South African immigrant is firing hard working Americans from their jobs without reason.
Thousands of families now struggling with no prospects for new jobs.
And MAGA cheers?
Make it make sense.
Failing to listen to the people and contest an admittedly-rigged election only to let a known Russian agent into the Oval Office (again) to placate the crybaby traitor and his mugga rioters has consequences. Who knew? 🤔
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Even if they only fired 200,000 (it will likely be more) that’s at least $8 billion taken out of the economy on top of the money Trump is cutting that employs private workers. This is going to be devastating. If Medicaid is cut, hospitals will close and the problem will compound.
#WeThePeopleVirtualSit-InChain Let your voice and political voice be heard here! Lets start a #VirtualSitIn and see how many brothers and sisters we can link up with who have a voice and a voice that matters!!!!! kansasnative
But you are right when you refer to Kansas as a red state. We have the western part of the states to thank for that—farmers and ranchers and Fox News watchers. They just don’t pay attention.
The KS side of the KC Metro area is Johnson County. Cities like Leawood, Overland Park, Shawnee, Mission, Olathe, Lenexa, Westwood, Mission Hills, Roeland Park, Fairway…
Thousands have had their dream careers suddenly cut off because of 2 petulant & dangersous toddlers. Thousands. And__I_am_rather_sure_in_those_thousands_are_MAGAS. They got what they voted for.
So the cut back on federal workers to save money. Only they end up in welfare, but that's been gutted too. So they basically ceate a shitload of angry people. They sow their own downfall
FAFO! It was fine as long as he was coming for the “others” but now the tide has turned. Red state will have to live with the consequences of their actions. I guess the welfare rolls will be growing exponentially. It always was about causing pain and harming the working class.
Seriously, knock it off with all the FAFO comments. KC knew this would happen, that’s why they overwhelmingly voted for Harris. It’s the meth-head rednecks downstate that won Missouri for Trump.
How many will end up working a roofing job in the middle of July's 90 degree heat because all the guys who were willing to do that kind of work got deported?
In 2015 when Bernie was running and talking about restructuring the insurance industry i kept saying he needed to elucidate a plan to re-direct those people to jobs. He failed because he failed to do so. That these maga dopes were dumb enough to vote for The Con boggles the mind.
When all these MAGAS are unemployed and thrown onto the streets will Trump lose popularity? Irrelevant as he will stay in power as a monarch/dictator for life.
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This are the consequences!
Biden left him with a 4.1% unemployment rate; the best since Clinton.
tRump increased unemployment to DOUBLE DIGITS when he was president last time;
Is he going for a record?
He's already fired TENS OF THOUSANDS!?!?!
It’s all on purpose.
The Unraveling has begun.
https://www.threads.net/@brockunion/post/DGRGvRrS3E5?xmt=AQGz_cxIKz-D_JJm0dp7A5X7PlXpvMpzEyJy0zK8ioF4CA
Yeah who would have guessed trumps hate and greed would reach all those peeps stuck in the middle of the country !
I am just gobsmacked
Time to play like republicans.
Don’t they have a tuberculosis outbreak too? Good thing RFK Jr is in charge🥴
holyfuckballs
Come on ToTo, time to get out of Kansas
But don’t let facts get in the way of your joy.
First, I “did not” say anything about KC metro area, I said Kansas!
Second, DONALD TRUMP Republican Received 741,949 or 57.18% of Kansas ELECTORAL VOTES… My mistake, my memory failed me, I was off by 2.82%
Kansas 57.2% voted for Trump.
Missouri 58.5% voted Trump
But I guess if you are determined to spread the hate, then I don’t imagine facts will deter you.
https://www.kceb.org/useruploads/Current_Results/Unofficial_Election_Summary_20241105_2135.pdf
DONALD J. TRUMP 26,031 20.99%
KAMALA D. HARRIS 94,854 76.48%
Not a care for repercussions.
Discarded our moral compass.
Empty out your assets, then sell them at a loss
https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-era-of-move-fast-and-break-things-is-over
Or are they too PROUD to do that?
All the fired workers can volunteer at the thousands of soon to be foodbanks...
Hard to volunteer when you’re starving.
America is turning fascist before everyone's eyes....
Job worries for people? yes
How about losing your country worries? priorities.
vote 4 a liar, cheater felon. Just out of National pride that shldn't have happened
Leopard ate your face. Ouch.
Support means nothing.
By then might be too late for many though….
How is firing all these people going to help the country?
For that matter it might be anyone. Nothing to loose.
...just need to look at how Elon Musk runs his workforce.
Sacrifice quality of life or else.
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Ginther said she's concerned.
"Government is a large part of our economy, and now we're slashing and burning a big contributor to economic growth without really fully understanding the consequences," Ginther said.
After all, isn't it the Republicans who want to move all of this back down to the states? Seems like the states should be hiring.
Oh wait… they voted for that shit.
Have fun.
What did you think they meant when they said “lower aggregate demand”
Oh not to mention the mortgage defaults from all laid off
Thank you. Truly.
Ugh
Subtracting those voting in the results posted above, you end up with about 1.8m who didn't vote (or maybe weren't even registered).
I highly doubt it would have made a difference if they had voted.
Plus Hillary, Obama, AOC, Pelosi, DEI, Woke, Antifa, and any of the other hundreds of boogeymen they’ve dreamt up.
As somebody who has friends who work for the government, are in unions, etc, and voted for orange man, I know there are those among them who need to be reminded what they voted for.
FAFO
You can lead a horse … oh never mind!
Where do you see hope ?
Mueller report failed to stopTRUMP
Jan6 committee failed to stopTRUMP
2024 election failed to stopTRUMP
Trump now tells his
apostles IN CONGRESS
that ZELENSKY is the aggressor
and DEMOCRATS are the traitors
as they confirm his destructive NOMINEES
Thousands of families now struggling with no prospects for new jobs.
And MAGA cheers?
Make it make sense.
#TreasonClips
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#GoAway
Zero sympathy